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a black book sitting on top of a white table next to a white wallthe front cover of a book with a black and white image of the titlean old book with a drawing of a man on a horsethree plates with different types of food on themthree plates with different designs on them on a tablemany different types of vases on display in this bookan old book with illustrations of a fountain and a statuea drawing of a ship in the ocean on a book
Maître Paul PASTAUD

126 - GARLIN (Gustave). *The Modern Cook, or The Secrets of the Cu…
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Estimate €350 - €400
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GARLIN (Gustave). *The Modern Cook, or The Secrets of the Culinary Art*. Menus. – Haute cuisine. – Pastries. – Ice creams. - Kitchen management, etc. A comprehensive work illustrated with 60 plates (330 drawings), comprising 5,000 recipes and 700 notes. Paris, Garnier frères, 1887. 2 vols. in-4, XLIV–278 pp.; [3] ff., 357 pp., text in two columns, with 60 black-and-white plates as inserts, with serpentine decoration, green half-chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, chagrin-textured cloth covers, speckled edges (publisher’s binding). Some foxing, but a good copy. First edition of this highly classic treatise, very well organised and of undeniable educational value, constituting a veritable culinary encyclopaedia at a time when gastronomy reached a peak from which it could only subsequently decline. (Vicaire, 385–86. Bitting, 176 (for the third edition).)
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 1 of 4 – Nos. 1 to 549
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Auction time 08/19/2026 at 11:00 AM
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